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Taoiseach launches TCD Biomedical Sciences Facility

Taoiseach Enda Kenny today officially opened the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute. EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn also attended.

The €131 million eleven story development is a state-of-the-art research facility which redefines the scientific landscape in Ireland and will allow the country to take an international lead in the delivery of quality pharmaceutical and biotechnological programmes to support these industries and underpin job creation.

The facility received €80 million in state funding under the Higher Education Authority Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI), co-financed by the ERDF, and National Development Plan 2007-13 medical education funding, with the balance financed by the College.

On the occasion of the official opening, Taoiseach Enda Kenny welcomed it, stating...

This Institute will help sustain Ireland's position as an international leader in biomedical research. I am highly impressed by the enormous contribution Trinity's bioscience researchers have already made to the improvement of human health and I am certain that this institute will be at the heart of further groundbreaking discoveries, with national and global impacts.

You can read the Taosieach's  full speech here.